Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Determinateness; decisiveness; conclusiveness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being definitive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
definitive .
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Examples
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But if Michelson's work deconstructs the sacred, refusing the definitiveness of any canon or idol worship -- religious, artistic, philosophical or otherwise -- she builds something unarguable in its place: a heartbreaking rumination on the story of female alterity.
Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011
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Many express a definitiveness about what God has to say about the subject and condemn those who have different reactions.
Kelly Figueroa-Ray: 'Are You A Good Muslim Or A Bad Muslim?' Kelly Figueroa-Ray 2011
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But if Michelson's work deconstructs the sacred, refusing the definitiveness of any canon or idol worship -- religious, artistic, philosophical or otherwise -- she builds something unarguable in its place: a heartbreaking rumination on the story of female alterity.
Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011
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I appreciate the definitiveness of your response (“Wrong”), but I think you are mistaken re whether Congress has discretion to reject a call for constconv.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Constitutional Challenges to the Health Care Bill 2010
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Many express a definitiveness about what God has to say about the subject and condemn those who have different reactions.
Kelly Figueroa-Ray: 'Are You A Good Muslim Or A Bad Muslim?' Kelly Figueroa-Ray 2011
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But if Michelson's work deconstructs the sacred, refusing the definitiveness of any canon or idol worship -- religious, artistic, philosophical or otherwise -- she builds something unarguable in its place: a heartbreaking rumination on the story of female alterity.
Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011
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But if Michelson's work deconstructs the sacred, refusing the definitiveness of any canon or idol worship -- religious, artistic, philosophical or otherwise -- she builds something unarguable in its place: a heartbreaking rumination on the story of female alterity.
Selby Drummond: Half-way Between Gesture and Thought: Choreographer Sarah Michelson's "Devotion" Selby Drummond 2011
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Moses Maimonides, a widely respected rabbi in what is now Egypt, responded in the way he thought best: discrediting the prophetic tradition of the Muslim sect oppressing the Yemenite Jewish community -- and Christianity, for the sake of definitiveness, as well.
Joshua Stanton: 'History Centrism': A Challenge To Abrahamic Faiths Joshua Stanton 2011
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It stretched back centuries into reaches of the past only sketchily recorded and dimly understood, offering shards of knowledge that could be pieced together coherently only with great difficulty—and then with little definitiveness.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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It stretched back centuries into reaches of the past only sketchily recorded and dimly understood, offering shards of knowledge that could be pieced together coherently only with great difficulty—and then with little definitiveness.
A Country of Vast Designs Robert W. Merry 2009
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